[yocto] Two recipes install the same file

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Feb 14 13:01:54 PST 2019


On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 20:29, Chuck Wolber <chuckwolber at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have run across this a few times, particularly with man pages, when including upstream packages into my images.
>
> I have to use a bbappend recipe in my meta layer to remove the lower priority version.

If you've two manpages with the same name that suggests that there are
two binaries with the same name, which presumably are already using
update-alternatives.  The correct fix here is to use
update-alternatives for the manpage too.

Ross


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